Movement
Baroque Architecture
Explore in the Atlas →A theatrical seventeenth-century style of dynamic curves, dramatic light and rich ornament, born in Rome as the spatial rhetoric of the Counter-Reformation Catholic Church and absolutist state, exemplified by the rival works of Bernini and Borromini.
Ritual Power
Details
- Origin
- Rome, Italy
Classifications
- Holder
- Individual
- Source of authority
- Revelation cosmologyReason
- Subject
- Human centred
- Cosmological orientation
- Axis mundi
- Political position
- Hegemonic
- Degree of codification
- Pattern based
- Mode of transmission
- Text drawingApprenticeship
- Knowledge type
- Propositional
- Epistemic cluster
- Western philosophical
Referenced by
- Renaissance Architecture preceded
- Spiro Kostof associated with
Sources
- Rudolf Wittkower. Art and Architecture in Italy, 1600–1750. Penguin Books, 1958.
Cite this entry
First published May 2026Last revised Jul 2026
CLAD. "Baroque Architecture." Atlas of Architectural Thought. CLAD, 2026. https://www.cl-ad.com.au/research/atlas/movement/baroque-architecture/. Accessed July 17, 2026.